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Monday’s medical myth: women forget the pain of childbirth

By Monique Robinson — 2013

In an evolutionary sense, memory of pain serves an important purpose. Pain indicates a threat to our safety or our life, and human survival depends on us avoiding things that are going to kill us.

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What to Expect at Work When You’re Expecting

Legal protections against pregnancy discrimination are one thing. Actual feelings of security are another.

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Roxane Gay
2021
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The Legitimate Children of Rape

Writing in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, Dr. Felicia H. Stewart and Dr. James Trussell have estimated that there are twenty-five thousand rape-related pregnancies each year in the United States.

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Andrew Solomon
2012
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Cultural Practices and Preferences When Having a Baby

Depending on your social, religious and cultural background, you may have certain needs and expectations when you are having a baby. In Australia, each woman is given choices about where and how she has her baby, and there are many services to help support women from different cultures.

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Pregnancy, Birth and Baby
2019
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Here’s Why Becoming a Mother for the First Time Is so Physically Intense

Not to mention all those emotional adjustments...

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Annamarya Scaccia
2017
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Latham Thomas Is a Woman on a Mission

She says attention needs to be paid to ending systemic racism throughout all of Black people’s lives—as well as in their safety in birth. And given Latham’s line of work, that last piece is a topic that’s particularly important to her.

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Tonya Russell
2020
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